Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-05-27
A LESSON WITH A MORAL.
When Will Our Eyes be Open to this Great
National Calamity

National Calamityl
The year 1886 played sad havoc
with many prominent men of our
country.
Many of them died without warn
ing, passing away apparently in the
full flush of life.
Others were sick but compara-
lively short time. We turn to our
files and are astonished to find that
most of them died of apoplexy, Of
paralysis, of nervous prostration, Of
malignant blood humor, of Bright's
disease, of heart disease, of kidney
disease, of rheumatism, or of pheu-
monia.
1t is singular that most of our prom
inent men die of these disorders.
Any journalist who watches the tele-
graph reports, will be astonished at
the number of prominent victims of
these disorders.
Many statements have appeared in
our paper with others to the effect that
the diseases that carried off so many
prominent men i'll 1886, are really one
disease, taking different names ac-
cording to the location of the fatal eff
fects.
When valuable horse perishes, it
becomes the nine days talk Of the
sporting world, and yet thousands Of
ordinary horses are dying every day,
their aggregate loss is enormous, and
yet their death creates no comment
So it is with individuals The cause
of death of prominent men creates
comment, especially wnen it can be
shown that one unsupported disease
carried off most of them, and yet
"vast numbers of ordinary men and
women die before their time every year
from the same cause"
1t is said if the blood is kept free
from uric acid, the heart disease,
paralysis, nervous prostration, pneu-
monia, rheumatism and many cases
of consumption, would never be
known. This uric acid, we are told
is the waste of the system, and it is
the duty of the kidneys to remove
this waste.
We are tod that If the kidneys are
maintained in perfect health, the uric,
kidney, acid is kept out of the blood,
and these sudden and universal di-
seases caused by uric acid will, in
great measure disappear.
But how shall this be done? 1t is
folly to treat effects. If there is any
known way of getting at the cause,
that way should be known to the pub
lie. We believe that Warmers safe
cure, of which so much has been
written, and SO much talked of by the
public generally, is now recognized by
impartial physicians and the pnblic
as.the one specific for such diseases.
Because pnblic attention has been
directed to this great remedy by means
Of advertising, some persons have not
believed in this remedy. We cannot
see how Mr. Warner could immedi-
ately benefit the public in any other
way, and his valuable specific should
not be condemned because some nos
trums have come before the public
in the same way, and more than that
all doctors should be condemned be-
cause so many OF them are 1ncompet-
ent.
1t is astonishing what good opinions
you hear on every side Of that great
remedy, and public opinion thus based
upon an actual experience, has all the
weight and Importance of absolute
truth.
AT this time of the year, the uric
acid in the blood invites pneumonia
and rheumatism, and there is not
man who does not dread these mon
sters of disease; but he need have no
fear of them we are told, if he rid the
blood of the uric acid cause.
These words are strong, and may
sound like fn advertisement, and be
rejected as such by unthinking peo-
Pile, but we believe they are the truth
and as such should be spoken by
every truth-loving newspaper.